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pythonCode/personTestingOutput/plrspawn.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <p>By JACOB G. HORNBERGER</p>
 
-<p>For the greater part of this century, <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>
+<p>For the greater part of this century, <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States
 government has plundered, looted, and terrorized the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
 people through <ent type='ORG'>the Internal Revenue Service</ent>. It has
 surreptitiously stolen people's income and savings through the
@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ refused to comply with <ent type='ORG'>the World Court</ent>'s judgment?</p>
 
 <p>The simple truth is that there is no mechanism by which
 international disputes among non-consenting, independent,
-sovereign nations can be adjudicated. (And <ent type='ORG'>the United Nations</ent>
+sovereign nations can be adjudicated. (And <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> Nations
 is not a judicial body designed to resolve such disputes; the
 <ent type='LOC'>Persian Gulf</ent> crisis showed that its votes are delivered in the
 same way as those in the U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>--to the highest bidder
 for cash or other consideration.) Does the lack of such a
 mechanism justify aggression against another nation-state--
-whether it be our government's invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Panama</ent> or <ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent>'s
+whether it be our government's invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Panama</ent> or Iraq's
 invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent>? No. But it does show two things: that for
 the foreseeable future, nation-states (including the U.S.)
 will continue to resolve their disputes through military
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ international affairs only evidences its own hypocrisy.</p>
 <p>The opportunity to serve as the world's policeman is a dream
 come true for the military-industrial complex--that is, those
 who are dependent on military welfare. With the collapse of
-communism in <ent type='LOC'>Eastern Europe</ent>, the military welfare-recipients
+communism in <ent type='LOC'>Eastern</ent> Europe, the military welfare-recipients
 were in a state of panic. How could they now justify the
 tremendous tax burden associated with a huge, standing
 military force? This concern and panic were best evidenced by
-the <ent type='ORG'>Pentagon</ent>'s eagerness to involve itself in the government's
+the Pentagon's eagerness to involve itself in the government's
 "war on drugs"--after years of refusing to do so.</p>
 
 <p>But to be able to serve as the world's policeman--especially
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ as pawns and, second, that pawns can and will be sacrificed
 whenever the political and bureaucratic chess players in
 <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> deem it necessary for the "international good."</p>
 
-<p>Is there an answer to <ent type='GPE'>Iraq</ent>'s invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent> based on
+<p>Is there an answer to Iraq's invasion of <ent type='GPE'>Kuwait</ent> based on
 principles of individual freedom and limited government? Yes.
 And it is an answer which is also based on the principle of
 individual responsibility.</p>
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ our government's ability to wage trade wars, and the end of
 its role as the world's international policeman. The power of
 our government should be constitutionally limited to three
 primary functions: protecting the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people from
-domestic criminals, defending <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> from foreign
+domestic criminals, defending <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States from foreign
 attack, and resolving disputes which arise in this nation.</p>
 
 <p>And the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people? They should be free to travel and
@@ -188,12 +188,12 @@ one's own freedom--not vicariously through the military
 conquests of one's government.</p>
 
 <p>Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Hornberger</ent> is founder and president of <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of
-Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>.
+Freedom Foundation.
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 From the July 1991 issue of <ent type='ORG'>FREEDOM DAILY</ent>,
-Copyright (c) 1991, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>,
+Copyright (c) 1991, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom Foundation,
 PO Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Colorado</ent> 80209, 303-777-3588.
 Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit
-and send one copy of reprinted material to the <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>.
+and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation.
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